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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Excellent I am a P.D James fan, but I did not enjoy this book. The plot was weak and the characters very dated. The young couple who worked in the kitchen at the private hospital were specially irritating, they might have had these attitudes fifty years ago, but they did not behave as young skilled working class people does nowadays. Very disappointing. There are signs that this may be the last Adam Dalgliesh mystery: rumours of the squad's demise, and doubts amongst the team are peppered throughout this book. I enjoyed the read but, can see that there is only so far that this series can go; and it may have reached its natural conclusion. As with most of the stories in the collection, this tale begins with a hundred plus pages building an air of foreboding. The scene is a well to do private clinic set in the countryside and the characters, who seemingly have everything going for them, all carry dark secrets. It is a closed community and so, inevitably, each person knows something of the other characters' hidden past but nobody knows it all. An investigative journalist books in for an operation to remove a scar and the underlying enmities lead to deadly circumstances. This is so clichéd that, in the hands of a less skilled writer, it would have become poor fare. P D James manages to retain the interest and, although the murderer becomes obvious before the end, James keeps an ace up her sleeve for the last few pages. The book does exactly what one expects of a good whodunnit; it is an unputdownable read. Thank you Commander Dalgliesh, I have enjoyed following your career. Strong characters, twisting plot, stone circles, great setting. Very British. July '09 Good plot twists. Very much typical of its genre. Very english. Class system very obvious. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307270777, Hardcover)Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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